🎥-Weekly Call & Videos
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This section contains video recordings of OpenDEX community calls, explainers, guides & more!
Jitsi link to join the call:
Time and day of the call: 18:00 UTC, every Wednesday
Discussions are recorded and uploaded here
One more rather casual call where we discussed , Marathon (a North American Bitcoin Mining corp) first to be "compliant with U.S. regulatory standards", then , Jack Maller's , a lenghty discussion about , store of Value vs. moving fast/innovation, , and more ethereum vs. bitcoin ;) Looking forward to finally have something to demo in two weeks 🔥
In this casual edition of our call , Tesla's 2021 Q1 report , , it's been an incredible week and there was probably never such a with even , Taproot close to activation (check ), a minor , the upcoming , discussed and RGB's .
In this call once more at the (read about the Cantillon effect ), and that by running their own merchant software and Bitcoin nodes, , how and our main topic: .
Tl;dr: UniSwap V3 is great and fixes a couple of inefficiencies of V2, but OpenDEX still keeps most of its advantages over UniSwap with the major one being: it's truly cross-chain. Native BTC, native ETH, no wrapping.
In this exciting community call we covered the , the new taproot activation alternative that could bring us taproot in 2021 🤯, the VERY different and entirely , that in some (admittedly rare) circumstances and spend the rest of the call wrapping our head around RGB 🌈, shout-out to Maxim from the RGB Team patiently explaining and answering questions and stay tuned about how we will work together to make a lightning-based DEX Standard a reality!
Check out these links to learn more about RGB or even get your hands dirty and try it out:
Project Page: https://rgb-org.github.io
FAQs: https://www.rgbfaq.com
Telegram: https://t.me/rgbtelegram
GitHub: https://github.com/LNP-BP
Docker Containers (CLI ftw!): https://github.com/LNP-BP/docker
MyCitadel RGB-enabled iOS Wallet: https://www.mycitadel.io
In this community call we discussed using multiple channels to settle one trade (will be demoed next week) and and saw an alpha demo of the upcoming 1.1.0 release of XUD Explorer featuring full setup on Windows. This version takes Windows users from 0 to "deposit funds" in a couple of Minutes, seamlessly installing docker as part of the installation flow.
In our second community call we saw a demo of the first iteration of XUD Explorer, a Desktop App UI for OpenDEX and discussion of various topics, such as hot wallets - the risk exposure one faces when using payment channel networks like the Lightning Network.
In our first community call we covered the Why?, How?, What? along with some live mainnet trading and a Q&A session.
In this community call we covered , which dramatically speeds up accessing ethereum state (out of experience we can't recommend to upgrade just yet though), , ( you can learn more about the differences between I2P and Tor), the (get a basic overview of RGB , but as promised we'll cover RGB in greater detail in next week's call and finally saw the and went through how arbitrage incentivizes liquidity providers to offer liquidity on the OpenDEX network, how it works in practice and why leveraging arbitrage with CEXes to incentivize liquidity provision on OpenDEX is only really possible because of instant finality of trades. Apologies for the missing recording, we'll have a backup recording next week ✌️
In this community call we covered the last piece of the puzzle missing for taproot activation on bitcoin: , which fixes a nasty crash, a demo of the new setup flow in our latest and saw a pretty cool demo of an upcoming feature for Boltz, which not only makes it compatibly with virtually all mobile ethereum wallets, but also doesn't require you to hold ETH to do swaps with an ERC20 asset like USDT! You can already try it out at - dope! 🌿
In this community call we covered another exciting week of happenings: , based on a post-taproot feature called (a more private & efficient replacment for HTLCs), our , , also some of you asked me to link this pretty stats page . Apologies for the missing recording, our bad ✌️
In this community call we covered another exciting week of happenings: , , , , , and .
In this community call we announced our move from "Exchange Union" to , which unifies everything under one name and should avoid confusion down the road. This also comes with a change in product focus, how we are funded, team members and more. The gist is: we are shifting focus towards UX & end-user facing trading products while keeping our core atomic-swap-DNA (the user is always in control of funds) & OpenDEX will become even more open going forward. If you are interested in day-to-day updates and what we are working on, please join our and watch our . We also touched on playbook, & Bisq's new feature.
In this community call, we talked extensively about r/wallstreetbets amazing coup against wallstreet causing hedge funds getting liquidated for their overleveraged short positions on , that the response of "trading restrictions" of AmeriTrade & others has to lead to decentralized trading networks like OpenDEX to take off, Bitcoin as treasury for non-profits and the new releases of lnd & connext. Finally, we saw a demo of a feature-complete Trading view in XUD UI.
In this community call, we laughed hard at ECB's Christina Lagarde's call for a global Bitcoin regulation because of the , how we can learn from and touched on an open PR moving everything cleanly to protobuf. Last but not least we saw a pretty neat sneak peak of the upcoming trading feature in XUD UI.
In this Christmas Edition of our community call, we clarified that the recent probably should be the end of Ledger, the recent probably the end of Ripple and, more importantly, saw an end-to-end demo of a deposit with XUD UI & went through a pretty interesting OpenDEX Q&A session, touching on the different stakeholders involved, why no token and more.
In this community call, we talked about the last edition of the amazing , about the upcoming and development updates from Boltz & Exchange Union with special focus on the new 🌈
In this community call, we touched on the events of the week and then went on discussing the upcoming release of the next connext protocol version called "vector" (), which Exchange Union expects to move to as soon as it's available (2020ish). We also have seen a demo of the upcoming 1.2.0 XUD UI release (and heard a range of excuses why it's taking so long, but also some decent commitment to deliver until next week).
In this community call, we touched on the recent happenings eth2 launch and and learned in-depth about the recently launched BTC/USDT swaps on 🔥
In in this special edition of our community call, we dived into "Running a bitcoin node" and looked at three projects helping to make this quest easier with a Raspberry Pi: , & . We had a closer look at Umbrel and discussed how it achieves great UX. We learned that Exchange Union is working on an integration with RaspiBlitz already and that we can expect to access OpenDEX seamlessly via above projects in the future.
In this community call we discussed , the proactive and saw and saw a first demo of multi-channel trades via xud.
In this community call we discussed Lightning Pool, the Infura downtime and Ethereum chain split and saw a pretty cool demo of the upcoming ⚡-BTC/USDT swaps on 🔥
The first public announcement of OpenDEX at in Prague.